nicole forsgren

My Foreword to "Frictionless" A book that describes how to best improve productivity by identifying and removing friction.

Today, @nicolefv.bsky.social and Abi Noda's new book "Frictionless" is officially published. I liked it enough to write a foreword for it:

martinfowler.com/articles/fri...

While We're Measuring Developer Productivity, Won't Someone Think of the Data Engineers? Nicole Forsgren just dropped a new book, and I absolutely CONSUMED it. It's called Frictionless: seven steps to help engineering teams move faster in the age of AI. Forsgren created DORA. She created ...

Won't someone PLEASE think of the data engineers? A plea for tooling for the underserved folks :)

www.distributedthoughts.org/data-enginee...

People, just know that if you accidentally added me to your group chat back in 2001, I am still in there.

And when you butt dial me, sure, sometimes I hang up right away. Sometimes I yell, so I can be a tiny voice in your pocket. But sometimes I keep listening, like "I want to see where this goes!"

Thoughts and prayers 😂😂😂

Nicole Forsgren (@nicolefv.bsky.social) is the brains behind DORA, lead author SPACE, and the co-author of Accelerate. Hardly a better person to share how to think about, measure and improve developer productivity!

Stream the full episode:

• YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wufj...

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Some of my finer work 💅🏻

Did they try to tell you it was service

IANAL but… could they be trying to use the word unique to get around any future membership in a class (like to avoid class action)? I mean also gotta love superseding all other laws too. Go big or go home.

how many tech CEOs are having private convos, cheering Twit on for doing “new disruptive things, sticking it to the working man”… and then laughing as they design and launch their own competes to fill the void as the bird site burns (hi threads)

I’ve been thinking of this a lot recently.

Ken & Barbie are very excited!

Every time someone else I know from Twitter follows me here

I had to watch at home so I could pause for snacks and a walk.

Really… so much of a good experience is being able to have snacks and a walk (hmm maybe we’re all toddlers), and Hamilton dgaf

What’s the over/ under this new code is gonna work 🫠

My cute retired neighbor called my HOA for me and… kept calling for FIVE DAYS because they refused to put him thru to the lady. As soon as he gets back to town, I’m taking him cookies.

I did this once, when someone told me I needed to chill out about work

I did this once, when someone told me I needed to chill out about work

Goals. I’m still looking for my Gen-whatever cottage core hobby and coming up short

I need this cross-stitched somewhere

ITS OKAY TO DO NOTHING FUCK IT YOU DONT NEED A EXCUSE YOUR SUPPOSE TO BE CHILLIG IN THE WOOD'S RIGHT NOW BEING BUSY IS THE WORST HOBBY FUCK IT DOIG SHIT ISNT EVEN FUN HALF THE TIME DOUNG NOTHING COSTS NOTHING DA PLEASURE FO DA MIND @DASHAREZ0NE @DASHAREZ0NE

FUCK IT - dashare.zone ADMIN

Thanks I listen to a lot of Spotify 😉

Also he’s p great thank you!!

My fiancé: wow you know all the words to these songs

Me: this is HRH Rihanna how do you *not*

What is the law that says I never run into people I know at my home airport but always bump into people I know in random airports around the world

Savage

Well with this endorsement I’ll grab it and actually put it at the top of my list 🙏🏻

GENIUS

I’m just eating Cheetos and drinking Diet Coke and hoping we all have the happiest and best words magically appear in the right order

I’ve rewatched them first season three times because it just makes me so happy

Perf season is the worst season 😫

Academics will tell you just how successful and effective paywalls are at driving engagement with the stuff that’s behind them 🙃

Yay so good to see you here!